Example Sentences

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Hundreds of construction workers are beavering away on expanding the site.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2021

Republicans are beavering away to create something, but it’s a proposal.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2017

And I do wonder what professional historians are beavering away for in their ivory towers, if not to have history become part of the common currency of life.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

This is during a challenge when all the other contestants are beavering away with papier-mache and lightbulbs and fingernails.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2010

A five-minute drive down Highway 520, Bill Gates' guys are beavering away on their own powerful new video-game console, the Xbox.

From Time Magazine Archive